SMU Event Registration
This event has been postponed. Please contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 214-768-ALUM or smualum@smu.edu for more information.
Impossible Challenges: Shaping Innovative Engineering Leaders & Seeing the Un-Seeable.
Lyle School of Engineering Dean Marc P. Christensen will join us to lead a discussion exploring the future frontier of engineering education in America. The world has plenty of challenges. How does a university attract and prepare the next generation of problem solvers? Dean Christensen will tell us how the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering is stepping up to that challenge. Today’s engineers are working at the forefront of the large-scale problems that plague our modern-day society. Engineers are expected to be more than just number-crunchers. They are expected to be innovative leaders and relentless problem-solvers that are not afraid to face their failures and learn from them. Dean Christensen will describe the approaches and successes SMU-Lyle has had in recruiting and shaping the next generation of innovative engineering leaders.
Brief Bio
Marc P. Christensen is the Dean and Bobby B. Lyle Professor of Engineering Innovation at SMU’s Lyle School of Engineering. With work experience ranging from large defense contractors to co-founding a photonics startup, he brings an innovative approach to his career in education and research. Since joining SMU in 2002, he has been recognized at SMU with both the university wide research award (Ford Research Fellow) and the university wide teaching award (Altshuler Distinguished Teacher). He has led a number of large multi-institutional collaborations focused on sensing and imaging at resolutions that previously defied quantification. In computational imaging, his research group transitioned an adaptive multi-resolution digital imager with performance surpassing the detector limited resolution to defense partners. In analog super-resolution his group demonstrated for the first time an active imaging system with performance surpassing the diffraction limit (6x) of the passive camera system in an uncalibrated uncontrolled 3-D macroscopic environment. In biophotonic sensing, the group demonstrated an unprecedented sensitivity electric field sensor which was simultaneously orders of magnitude smaller than previous designs, thereby enabling a biophotonic sensor for nerve action potentials. His group’s current focus: To see the un-seeable.
Dean Christensen received a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1993, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from George Mason University in 1998, and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from George Mason University in 2001.
Tuesday, April 26
7 a.m. Registration and networking
7:30 a.m. Breakfast and presentation
The Junior League of Houston
Tea Room
1811 Briar Oaks Lane
Houston, TX 77027
$25 per person
Business attire
Register by Thursday, April 21
If you wish to purchase a table for 10 for $200,
please call Andrew Conwell at 214.768.4752.
Questions? Email houston@smualumni.smu.edu.